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Chapter 1: Building Great iOS Games

Figure 1-4:

Sketches of

the game’s

movement

mechanics.

Trafﬁc iPad vs. iPhone

iPhone iPad

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GRB

3. Add the elements of style, color, and smaller graphical details that

establish the look and feel for your game.

Figure 1-5 shows the finished visual prototype of the game’s main menu.

Ask yourself questions like the following, and create your look and feel

accordingly. Do you want your game to look:

• Simple or complex?

• Realistic or cartoony?

• Serious or funny?

• Bright and cheerful, or dark and brooding?

Consider the amount of development time you have to invest (making

the game art look realistic takes a large amount of time). Additionally,

players expect things that look realistic to behave in realistic ways

(which also takes time to code). In most games, the game designer is

forced to make a trade-off over realism and fun, and we suggest that you

err on the side of fun.

See the sidebar, “Moving through Traffic,” nearby in this chapter, for some of

the thought process we used to design the mechanics and look and feel for

the Traffic game.

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